City of Faribault Live Stream - Planning Commission Meeting - 2025-11-17
City of Faribault Live Stream - Planning Commission Meeting - 2025-11-17
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**Note on Identifications:** The Planning Commission members (Tina, Ed, Barton) and the staff member (Harry) are identified via direct address by the Chair during the meeting.
[0:08] **Chair:** We go. We're ready. Call the meeting to order. It's our planning commission meeting for Monday, November 17. Item one in our agenda is approving actually item two approving the minutes of the last time that we gathered which was on November 3rd.
[0:28] **Planning Commission Member:** I'll second it.
[0:29] **Chair:** Thanks. Got the motion. Tina's got the second on the minutes as written. Discussion. All those in favor say I.
[0:38] **Commission Members:** I.
[0:39] **Chair:** Those no. That carries. So public hearings. Uh the first one we've got up tonight is the uh final plat approval for the Jazzy first edition. So we're going to go right to our city staff. And Harry's got that by the way. It looks—
[0:55] **Harry (City Staff):** Thank you. Thank you, chair. Good.
[1:05] **Chair:** That's a really nice plaque. You guys have done a bangup job that I I look forward to seeing that in fair.
[1:13] **Planning Commission Member:** It's a lot of flood plane actually.
[1:15] **Planning Commission Member:** Did we get DNR's?
[1:17] **Harry (City Staff):** Yeah, the DNR's got to sign off on the back.
[1:21] **Harry (City Staff):** Okay, now we're ready. I don't see it on—I I see it on mine. Yeah, we've got it. Yeah, but you're talking about YouTube. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, good evening, commissioners. So, the item in front of you is the uh resolution to approve the final PL for Jazz's first edition. Um, my computer lags through. There we go. Uh the applicant is Nate Snder uh with County EL LLC and the current owner is Lampert Yards, Inc. Uh but it will be County EL LLC uh by the time it it goes through the recording process. Uh the location is 801 4th Street Northwest. Um you'll know by the owner, but it's the old Lamperts uh building, and the proposal is a final plat.
[2:14] **Harry (City Staff):** The property is uh right next to the railroad uh along Highway 60 uh just across from Midwest Storage in the upcoming Midwest Flats. Here's a property outlined in yellow. Uh so it's a mostly a commercial area. Uh there's a little bit of industrial uh to the south of this property. Um but generally pretty commercial, especially along Highway 60. And then here's the zoning map. So the zoning map and the land use kind of um are are are at least similar in this sense. So this kind of gives you uh an idea as to what's immediately adjacent.
[2:56] **Harry (City Staff):** And the final plat is to combine the two lots uh that make up the lamperts or the old lamperts building uh into one property and that's to facilitate redevelopment of the property. Um this is the preliminary plat which was approved earlier this year. So the preliminary plat uh just to rehash the idea behind this is that the uh there's an existing lot line that goes through that existing building. And so what we're trying to do is get rid of that lot line so that when the uh hopefully future owners uh or or future occupants of of this building come in pull a building permit that they won't have to put a firewall along the uh property line that bisects the building and as a result severely uh reduce the capabilities of the interior of that building.
[3:55] **Harry (City Staff):** So the final plat all it seeks to do is is just combine these properties so that ultimately it's just one property. Uh just so happens that it's across two different subdivisions. Otherwise uh we might be looking at something that would be more of a minor subdivision potentially. Um but this is across two different subdivisions. So the process that we have to go through for final plat um the criteria is met for final plat. very consistent and similar to the preliminary plat. And so we do feel like that this meets all of our zoning requirements. So we are recommending that you forward eventually once my computer catches up uh forward to city council uh this resolution which proves the requested final plot based on the criteria and findings in said resolution. Uh with that I'm happy to take any questions.
[4:38] **Chair:** Do we have any questions for Harry on this one?
[4:42] **Tina (Planning Commission Member):** Ina [Tina] um when we listened to this for the preliminary plant, there was a comment in the report that talked about the title report was pending. And the only reason why I bring that up is you don't have to abandon the interior lot utility easements that are generally standard. Are you sure they're not there? Because last time we had to come back and abandon them. So I'm asking you, did you get a title report yet to check?
[5:11] **Harry (City Staff):** Sure. Yeah, we do have a title report. There are no hidden easements. So really the difference between this plat and the other plat—and I think that you're referring to the Malica project. So the Mala project that plat is a much um much more recent plat where we would have required that and honestly that was more of a miss on the surveyor not to provide that. it's a little bit on staff and that we didn't check the, you know, the the preceding plat, but it's really on the surveyor because they are that that that's what they're asked to do is provide those easements. Um, we feel pretty confident in what the applicant has proposed along with the surveying that they've done as well as the title commitment that they've provided. So, we don't anticipate any hidden easements in between these two lots.
[6:00] **Tina (Planning Commission Member):** That was it. I just questioned.
[6:02] **Chair:** Do I have any other questions on that? We'll open up to public hearing. So, everything that we do, this is the official part of the public hearing. We've had the presentation. We've asked any clarifying. If you have anything to say to us, uh the developer, property owners, neighbors, whatever come up one at a time name address company represent. Uh when public hearing is done, then we're going to come back up here. We'll talk about it some more. Somebody will make a motion to do something. We'll vote on that motion. We're a recommending body to the city council and then it goes to them and you get to come back next week. Watch them do this. So that's it. Any public input on this final plat request? I'm fine with it. I just got to check all the boxes. So I have asked and we are closing public hearing now. So there's no public input. Back up here to the planning commission for discussion. A motion.
[6:55] **Planning Commission Member:** Here, I move for approval of the final plat.
[6:58] **Chair:** Got a motion and a second on the final plat as presented to us tonight. Is there any discussion on this at all? We've certainly seen it enough through. We're good. All those in favor say I.
[7:14] **Commission Members:** I.
[7:15] **Chair:** All those opposed, no. That carries. Next Tuesday night for you folks. Now, the next one, I know this is going to be awfully short. uh Harry for B mighty fine coffee and then the resolution ordinance resolution resolution resolution. So the six action items uh tell us where we're going with this.
[7:33] **Harry (City Staff):** Yes, Mr. Chair and and I apologize to uh everyone that that was looking at the previous packet and and was a little confused as to why we didn't have items for all of those. Um it's really in the in the staff report for the for the main agenda item. So, and that's what I've pulled up here. Um, we've been working with the Mighty Fine Coffee People on some of their um issues with with their property in relation to their neighbor. And we've been working very closely with them for the past several months uh and even before that with the original approvals that went through you guys earlier this year. Um, we put all of these on the agenda in the hope that we would be able to bring this in front of you all. Uh, but we've received uh what we determined to be an incomplete application. We just don't have all the necessary bits and and pieces that we need. So, we need time to to to polish that with the applicant. Um, what we believe or at least what we hope is that we'll be able to bring this to the first planning commission meeting in December, December 1st. So what we're asking for today is to just continue it, not table it, continue discussion on this item to the December 1st meeting to continue the action item. Yes.
[8:57] **Barton (Planning Commission Member):** Continue the item in front of us. Make a motion that we continue item number 3B to the meeting on December 1st.
[9:06] **Ed (Planning Commission Member):** Second.
[9:12] **Chair:** Ed's got the second. So, we've got a motion in a second. We all understand this. This is just—All right. Go ahead.
[9:26] **Planning Commission Member:** I'm just—He asked for it to be at the next meeting. I think Robert's rules. You've got to do a date. You can't just—and it's a different type of motion specific—that's been published for notice of publications.
[9:44] **Harry (City Staff):** Yeah, Mr. Chair, I don't want to add a a ton of what always been said, but but basically, yes, because we've published it, you know, people have been notified that there's a public hearing. We aren't ready for that. But if we continue it, uh, then our city attorney has basically said, look, you know, you've continued discussion on on this. If anyone was to show up that would be interested in it, they would know. Um, if anyone else asked, hey, you know, what happened at the planning commission like call us tomorrow, we can we can let them know that it's been continued. But, you know, that's that's generally the idea so that we don't, you know, after we publish, send out new letters. That's that's that's all we're trying to do right now.
[10:24] **Chair:** Yep. Okay. Anything else? Got a motion. Got a second. Continue. All those in favor say I.
[10:35] **Commission Members:** I.
[10:36] **Chair:** No. Done with that. Request to be heard. Items for discussion. Routine business. You got anything fun for us?
[10:40] **Harry (City Staff):** Uh, Mr. Chair, no. I I currently don't have anything for items four through six. Um, if I could skip seven. So, just to let you know, the uh Ivy Hill projects or the Ivy Hill requests did move forward at city council. I believe the only one that we still uh have to put on the next meeting is the ordinance for the rezoning, but everything else did pass. So, uh Ivy Hill is moving forward. They did appreciate everyone's uh discussion and comments on variances. Uh but I think ultimately where they landed is that going to be issues with with with redevelopment and this is one where a variance seemed appropriate to grant.
[11:27] **Chair:** Anything else from anybody? That's it. A motion to adjourn.
[11:32] **Barton (Planning Commission Member):** Move we adjourn.
[11:36] **Tina (Planning Commission Member):** Second.
[11:38] **Chair:** Bart's got the motion. Tina's got the second on adjourn. All those in favor say I. Oppose? No.